Cinematic Era: 1972 Vintage

Ger van Elk short film at the Rijksmuseum

Maspalomas, in the south of the Gran Canaria island, as well as an international tourist centre, is also an important agricultural centre dedicated to tomatoes. The lands are cultivated by families from all around the island who work not as salaried workers but as sharecroppers (aparceros). These families, during the seven months that the harvest lasts, live in barracks built by the owners in the same land they cultivate. Between tomatoes, the aparceros cultivate other products for their own food and for their animals. Water is scarce and it's really appreciated. At the end of the harvest, the day of San Fernando, the aparceros celebrate in popular festivities, which include cockfighting and lucha canaria. This documentary was recorded in 1972, but couldn't be shown until the year 1977, as the Franco regime's censorship retained its exhibition permit.

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Short animated experimental film.

A profile of architect and planner Warnett Kennedy.

From renowned Japanese graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist Awazu Kiyoshi, Furyu (1972) is a testament to the ephemeral beauty of interplaying light and shadow. This experimental 16mm film exhibits the shadows of trees arching and swaying in the wind, visible as eerie shapes on the bare walls of a white house, alongside an evolving soundscape of intensifying oral vibrato and piercing instrumental pitches. A rarely shown sensorial experience.

About a potter in love with his neighbour maiden, daughter of much wealthier parents.

Short Super8 making of of Walter Bockmayer's CARMEN, shot by the director himself.

Satire on couples featuring Romeo and Juliet. The classic romantic couple can only squabble with each other until mischievous Cupid's arrow finds its mark...

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972 opening exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,Texas. “...Sound Strip / Film Strip consists of four film loops simultaneously projected sideways so that the four images abut one another horizontally. Sharits made each loop by filming colored surfaces, scratching the film, projecting it so that the sprocket holes showed on the screen; he then filmed that projection, scratched the result, and projects that as the final object. The resulting image is a continuous flicker of various color ranges with both actual and ‘virtual’ scratches and sprocket holes running horizontally (normally vertically) across the screen. Thus, Sharits is working with filmic abstraction which employs no image save for that inherent in the medium itself....”

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.

color, sound, 15 min., never shown. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A stop-motion adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale.

It deals with traditions related to cattle and horses as well as changes in the agricultural economy in the region of the Sierras de Elizonda , in the Sierras de Valle Fértil , on the way to Valle de la Luna in the province of San Juan

Annett Wolf has had many lives, and it’s not over. Now 85 years old, she has moved to Halifax (Canada) with the hope of filming a snow wolf, a vision from her childhood that haunts her, the Wolf.

The film De straat (The Street) opens with scenes of a protest in a street. Right after, we see aerial views of a busy highway. The narrator's words say it all: 'The street has become nothing more than a highway – a movement machine, as Le Corbusier called it. The heart of the city, the street, has turned into nothing but a space for traffic.' The car has ruined both the street and community life, and the footage hits this message home. Shots of Belgian cities overrun by cars and trucks are mixed with peaceful clips of Italian towns, where kids spend their whole day playing outside. In short, the film is a powerful critique of motorized traffic in our cities

Analog video was not only an alternative to more expensive motion picture film for artists. It was also a viable new medium with specific attributes all its own. In On Screen, characteristics such as video snow and audio static become more pronounced and distorted with each subsequent version of the artist within the “TV” frame. As Lynda Benglis performs a sequence of pulling faces for the camera in triplicate, we become aware that the performance is based on memory, sometimes faulty—a kind of symbiotic conflation of artist and machine.

An early short film from Gábor Bódy.

Report on the situation of bóias-frias in the interior of the State of São Paulo, as in the city of Itapetininga. These workers live in poor villages in urban areas and are taken by truck to work in the fields in the middle of the night. Men, women and children work hard in the countryside to earn a living for their family, but are unable to have land to plant. The system of bóias-frias is used by farmers, as there is no commitment to a monthly salary or portfolio registration; only hours worked are paid.

"Sunshine Singapore pairs lurid, dream-like visuals of 1970s Singapore with music which leads the viewer through a variety of moods – oscillating between the languid and exotic, to the unfailingly upbeat – embodying the contradictions facing a nation on the cusp of modernity. In a departure from the detached quality of black-and-white archival footage, Gour offers a hopeful imagination of Singapore then and showcases his playful infatuation with its urban environment. A 4K restoration of Sunshine Singapore was made possible using the surviving 16mm film print preserved by the Asian Film Archive and restored by Cineric Inc. in 2018." (Asian Film Archive)

Coming in the wake of a whole movement of wild, ecstatic, psychedelic films loaded with unchecked energy and abandon, Throbs demonstrates a remarkable subtlety and restraint, as Fred explores variations in loops and cycles, weaving unlikely combinations of found and original footage to envelop us in a free associative dream world. —Mark Toscano. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

United States 1972, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 7 min

The Nguzo Saba Folklore Love Series for Children

The Damnation of Damien, edited in 1968, printed in 1972. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Part five, EPILOGUE TO OOBIELAND is a 40 second animation punctuating the entire series much like a period ends a sentence. All together the five parts exhibit an array of techniques in animation, live action theatrical presentation and sound.

“A ‘baroque’ summary of film’s historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space.” – HF

The edited A-roll original prior to reversal wet-gate printing and hand-painting.

"I've printed each single frame 12 times or 8 times [...] This permits people to study a it little more [...] There's a horseman, a woman and a moth in this movie." -S.B.

Overview of the forestry workers of Valdivia and Panguipulli. Their testimonies reveal the abuse to which they are subjected.

An outdoorsman falls in love with a wild orphaned bear cub.

Directed by Reza Allamehzadeh.

Indian horror movie from 1972.

The first uncensored documentary about the Soviet Union ever made by an outsider. The film takes viewers to 12 of the 15 states of the former USSR.

This filmed documentary of the modern Olympic Games begins with the 1896 games and continues through the 1972 Munich games. The movie makes it clear that the original intent of the Olympic movement has long since been subverted to nationalistic and commercial ends.

An elderly woman reproaches her husband for his carefree attitude. In truth, she is worried about their children, who have moved to the city and no longer write. The husband does not deny her accusations. In fact, he is willing to do whatever it takes to make her happy.

In this episode, Hendrik Andriessen, composer of church music and organist.

Experimental short by Takashi Nakajima.

The daily lives of a group of young people who use drugs are documented on film. The soundtrack features a mix of rock music and interview excerpts. The media distributor at the time wrote: »It clearly illustrates how people addicted to drugs »go to the dogs« physically, mentally, emotionally, and morally; to an aesthete, the film seems abhorrent; to a moralist, repulsive; to a philosopher, depressing.”«

High on the Wind Rivers is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Wind River Canyon and Shoshone National Forest.

A little girl has to remember what her mom asked her to buy at the store

The only and unfinished feature film made by Manuel Chambi with his students from the University of Lima.

A short film from the Children's Film Foundation (CFF) regarding some children trying to break in a new pony, before running into horse thieves. The source material comes from the 1948 serial Riders of The New Forest, re-edited into a stand-alone short in 1972.

A virgin husband and a lustful woman pretending to be a virgin, Umi, are about to spend their wedding night together. The husband, textbook in hand, is alas! He climaxes just before he can enter. His wife's frustration with his nightly premature ejaculation finally explodes! She fantasizes about her love affairs with former lovers and lesbian friends and masturbates intensely, but that's still not enough, so she straddles her sleeping husband's crotch and shakes her hips... A hilarious and entertaining comedy porn film!

Suspected UVF leader Gusty Spemce was abducted while on leave from prison to attend his daughter's wedding. A TV crew tracks him down.

Documentary on the political history of Bolivia by Colectivo C3M - Cinema del Terzo Mondo

An engaged young man returns to his native village with his fiancée. Amid pastoral fields of dandelions, memories resurface of a youthful love for a local girl, Lida.

Film adaption of Edvard Munch's "Livsfrise"-paintings.

A tragic accident causes a famous football player to turn to alcohol, and as a result, she soon becomes addicted

A film by Lutz Mommartz

A film by Lutz Mommartz